other books Re: Borat

[the Robot Vegetable]

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Ya Sam wrote:

> Just watched. Hilarioius. In a way he is a Pynchonesque character, coming 
> from Inner Asia to look for his own personal Shambhala in US.

  This makes me think of Halldor Laxness's _Paradise Reclaimed_ in which a
fellow leaves his family in Iceland, late 1800s, and travels to Utah. He's
not much of a bigot, however.

  I started _The Prestige_; there's bilocation right in the first chapter.
However, compared to Pynchon, the prose is a bit pedestrian, and I needed
some more structured 12 step novel, so, having realised with a Doh! that 
I have mixed up James and Hardy once again, I fetched _The Princess 
Casamassima_ and have begun my highly stylized recovery.
  So far, Hyacinth seems like the youngest Darby as an effete snob, but I 
hesitate to attribute such splapstick intentions to the Most Learned Dog.

  I suspect strongly, that just as I began to read long long ago, dear old 
dad was working on folio editions of Hardy and James.  They are stuck 
together forever in my damp grey folds.
 
  veg